Facebook Lasso Facebook Lasso TechCrunch asked the company for some more details about the Lasso roadmap.
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They developed what they call the "lasso method," which as the name suggests works a lot like a lasso, whereby you consolidate your debt.
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TikTok trounces Facebook's Lasso in the U.S. iOS App Store charts TikTok trounces Facebook's Lasso in the U.S. iOS App Store charts I had Sensor Tower run some analysis comparing TikTok with Lasso since its launch last November, and found that Lasso gets six downloads for every 1,000 for TikTok in the US. Some more stats: Beyond the U.S., Lasso has only launched in one other market, Mexico in April, where it's been faring better but could hardly even be considered a competitor to TikTok.
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Josh Constine reports that the person running the would-be TikTok killer Lasso has left for Netflix, and also that Lasso is off to a slow start.
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Lasso app Lasso app The original slate of videos seeded by Lasso's beta users look pretty good, making use of the millions of songs in its soundtrack catalog.
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Facebook is building Lasso, a video music app to steal TikTok's teens Lasso lets you shoot up to 15-second long videos (no uploads allowed) and overlay popular songs.
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Facebook launches Lasso, its music and video TikTok clone So I asked Facebook how it would prevent such issues on Lasso, where all content is public and adults can follow children.
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There's no prohibition against lasso guard in Gracie Tournaments, but try playing lasso guard in a "real fight" without getting your balls (assuming you're male) smashed like eggs on a frying pan.
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The ropecaster lasso beats and pins them to the ground.
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Now he's back at making creative expression simpler with Lasso.
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Diana Prince looking badass while wielding the Lasso of Truth.
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The big question is whether Lasso is too late. Musical.
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Louie Swisher: The teens are not in touch with Lasso.
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Late last year, Facebook launched a TikTok clone called Lasso.
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Mr. Nelson ran into murky water carrying a green lasso.
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Lasso a cantankerous whale, and teach it how to love?
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Given the teen audience Lasso craves is already on Instagram, it will be fascinating to see if former VP of News Feed Adam Mosseri, who's now running Instagram, will insert some links to Lasso.
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"Delegates from our political alliance will challenge the results," Lasso said.
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Lasso demanded a recount after three exit polls showed him winning.
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Casey Newton: The teens are not in touch with Lasso. Yeah.
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He'd smiled as she spun an invisible lasso over her head.
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Wonder Woman's armpits are basically glowing as bright as her lasso.
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Climb the pedestal and lasso the statue (typically around the neck).
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During the same period, Lasso had been downloaded by 70,000 users.
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They tossed up their lasso and pulled down a star. Again.
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Still, like Facebook Watch, Lasso might be a couple of years late.
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There's the magic golden lasso which compels people to tell the truth.
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Most recently, it launched Lasso, a video app that's similar to TikTok.
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Facebook has also released its own version, a dedicated app called Lasso.
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Like Lasso and Temer, Argentina's Mauricio Macri is a protégé of Washington.
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In that same time period, Lasso has been downloaded by 70,000 users.
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Polls show Moreno has pulled ahead of Lasso in the last weeks.
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Lasso has not gotten a lot of traffic in its first month.
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Viteri and Lasso were close at 17.98 percent and 16.57 percent respectively.
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These transactions and ownership manipulations involve various Lasso family members and cronies.
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Diana Prince, on the World War I battlefield, and even the lasso.
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"We will cordially ask Señor Assange to leave within 30 days," Lasso pledged.
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To no surprise, Facebook recently quietly launched its own TikTok competitor called Lasso.
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Lasso would most likely be the standalone app version of Lip Sync Live.
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IT offers up easy access to the lasso, pointer, crop tool and more.
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Disputed results Lasso, a former banker, said that he was requesting a recount.
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In November, Facebook released Lasso, an app that copies many of TikTok's features.
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Lasso has yet to gain traction with Facebook's ever-elusive teen users, though.
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But those downloading Lasso surely don't need to worry about any of that.
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Conservative former banker Guillermo Lasso is the opposition's frontrunner in Sunday's presidential election.
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Mr. Lasso denied wrongdoing, but Mr. Correa said the candidate was under investigation.
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Wonder Woman Golden Lasso Coaster at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio, Texas
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Lenín Moreno narrowly won Ecuador's presidential election, defeating Guillermo Lasso, a conservative former banker.
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The electoral authority's computers briefly shut down with Mr Lasso in an early lead.
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Let's not equivocate — let's set off an honest, lasso-approved truth bomb, shall we?
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In 2018, Facebook launched a video app called Lasso to directly compete with TikTok.
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She also comes complete with her signature tiara, lasso, sword, shield, and patriotic bustier.
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Conservative candidate Guillermo Lasso has called for a recount, raising allegations of electoral fraud.
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The resulting hybrid comes from the same manufacturer as Golden Lasso, Rocky Mountain Construction.
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"I'm running for a job that has the lasso of truth," she told her.
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Maureen Dowd: You can lasso a moving target from 12 to 15 feet away.
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The duo was especially good at Kat and Justin's signature move — the lasso lift.
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But the lasso ain't done — it's got dudes to whirpool-smack in the chest.
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In November 2018 Facebook launched a standalone video-sharing app called Lasso, and leaked audio from an internal meeting showed that CEO Mark Zuckerberg's strategy was to introduce Lasso in markets where TikTok did not yet have a foothold, such as Mexico.
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Lasso Lasso But while TikToks might look like Stories because they're vertical videos, and TikTok might algorithmically recommend them to people like Instagram Explore, it's a whole 'nother beast of a product and one that may be harder than it seems to copy.
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It is curious that Facebook seemingly made little noise about Lasso prior to its launch.
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A guy once used a call light as a lasso, swinging it around his head.
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Its new Tik Tok clone Lasso saw only 10,000 downloads in the first 12 days.
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He can swing a piece of string like a lasso to grab onto high ledges.
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I choose a short black dress, high platform wedges trimmed in gold like a lasso.
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Pishevar said the rope was meant to symbolize a cowboy's lasso, referencing BamBrogan's outlaw attitude.
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His man, Lenín Moreno, duly scored a narrow victory against Guillermo Lasso, a conservative banker.
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In November, Facebook launched Lasso, a standalone video app that was nearly identical to TikTok.
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The reporting thus far indicates that some 50 companies associated with Lasso have been identified.
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By comparison, Lasso has been downloaded by only 420,000 worldwide users, according to Sensor Tower.
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And he knows his company needs to respond via its standalone clone Lasso and more.
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Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
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And, yes, we see her use her magic unbreakable lasso, and it's a breathtaking moment.
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In a tweet after the results, Assange wrote: "I cordially invite Lasso to leave Ecuador within 30 days (with or without his tax haven millions)..." Where it stands: 97% of the votes are in, with Moreno at 51% and Lasso at just under 49%, per the AP. Lasso said he is "not going to allow" the "very sickening" results to stand, while Moreno joined outgoing President Rafael Correa in singing "leftist classics."
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Sensor Tower estimates Lasso has been downloaded fewer than 10,000 times across both iOS and Android.
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Wonder Woman Barbie holds a gold lasso, which Gadot's Wonder Woman also carries in the trailer.
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Where the show transforms skill into spectacle is with those lasso-like weights attached to ropes.
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Ruling Country Alliance party officials scoffed that Lasso was a sore loser who was inciting violence.
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Ruling Country Alliance party officials scoff that Lasso is a sore loser who is inciting violence.
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Or how about Wonder Woman's magic lasso, which forces the captive to obey her every command?
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Facebook has, in fact, tried to copy the app's success with a similar product called Lasso.
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It launched Lasso, a stand-alone video app with an interface and features similar to TikTok's.
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The shot of Megan atop a horse with a fire lasso might be worth the trouble.
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We can also breathe a sigh of relief: Wonder Woman's bracelets and lasso are totally kick-ass.
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A Facebook spokesperson says that Facebook may investigate promoting Lasso on its other apps down the line.
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One respected exit poll gave the edge to Mr Lasso, who has so far refused to concede.
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"Lasso your debt into preferably one location where you can get a lower interest rate," Auten said.
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She later loosened up and was recorded pretending to whip around a lasso as Gronkowski danced wildly.
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Ad blockers like Magic Lasso are able to work within those limitations and still block tracking scripts.
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Lasso includes a report button, but it's unclear where Facebook will draw the line on what's allowed.
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According to the company, the rope Pishevar placed on BamBrogan's desk was a lasso, not a noose.
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When caught in the clutches of her golden lasso, a person is forced to tell the truth.
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Adam Blacker, communications lead and VP of mobile research at Apptopia, called Lasso "almost identical" to TikTok.
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The executive leading the Lasso team, Brady Voss, left the company shortly after the app was released.
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One day, we'll all be back in theaters together watching Diana Prince lasso the patriarchy into submission.
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Does she sing "I'm Movin' On" while vacuuming the rug, whipping the power cord like a lasso?
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In these cases even Wonder Woman, with her Golden Lasso of Truth, may be of little help.
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In his apartment in East New York, Brooklyn, he keeps the ultimate bull-catching weapon: a lasso.
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Here's Diana using oh, I don't know, strikes of LIGHTNING as an attachment for her swinging lasso.
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TikTok itself has gotten so big that Facebook even quietly launched a competitor called Lasso in November.
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His grand escape has us all asking: Where's that heroic lasso-touting Walmart cowboy when you need him?
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Lasso lost the election on February 19th, and Assange's asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London has continued.
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Lasso asked for a recount and vowed to challenge the results, a complex process that could take time.
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A state agricultural officer used a lasso to capture the bird and placed it into a transport trailer.
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Mr. John once spent $100,000 on tablecloths in Italy with Gianni Versace; Mr. Taupin likes to lasso cattle.
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The men used rope to lasso the young deer, while Kutznig ran about a mile on the beach.
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There's also Lasso, a TikTok rival launched last November, and the controversial Messenger Kids launched in December 2018.
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The original strip was replete with bondage references, not least of which was the Golden Lasso of truth.
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Lasso has been routinely described as a "former banker" who allegedly retired from banking activities five years ago.
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Hopefully this is the start of something bigger for Crosley as they attempt to lasso more advanced users.
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The timing could be part of a natural cycle, Dr. Lasso said, or related to local forest clearing.
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Lasso had declared himself the winner and denounced the official figures as a mockery of the Ecuadorean people.
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It said scores of indigenous protesters had looted a shop in the town of Lasso on Monday morning.
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In the back of his pickup truck, which he parks on the street, he keeps his lasso coiled.
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Mr. Lasso and I thought we would be arrested at any moment on charges of disturbing the peace.
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If Facebook is truly serious about challenging TikTok, it may need to build closer ties between Lasso and Instagram.
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Mr Moreno's narrow victory on April 2nd came after an ugly fight with Guillermo Lasso, a conservative former banker.
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In the first two weeks of release, the story of the lasso wielding superhero pulled in $232.2 million overseas.
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Bullet-deflecting, lasso-flinging superheroine Wonder Woman turns 75 this year and, really now, she hasn't aged a day.
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Moreno and Lasso are within three percentage points of each other with more than 96% of the vote counted.
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"They've crossed a line, which is pretending to abuse the people's will" and install an "illegitimate" government, Lasso said.
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The good news for Facebook is that if Lasso doesn't pull ahead of TikTok, it can simply try again.
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Should Lasso win, he could also face trouble governing, as the ruling leftist party has a majority in Congress.
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Facebook has taken notice of TikTok's rising popularity, and even launched a competitor app called Lasso earlier this month.
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Get your lasso ready, because a Wonder Woman sequel is in the works and this is not a drill.
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Then, in November 2018, Facebook launched Lasso, which was nearly identical to TikTok, although it didn't reach mainstream use.
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Select the section using the marquee, lasso, or selection tool, and press the hotkey to invert the selected area.
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That surprisingly charming little 2014 action flick gets a sequel, this time with bonus Channing Tatum and a lasso.
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"It's a stampede," the voice says, as cows trot across the screen, pursued by a cowboy with a lasso.
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So the pressure on the lasso-wielding "Wonder Woman," directed by Ms. Jenkins and released on Friday, was astronomical.
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As the guys try to get away, she throws her lasso, which snares both of them by the foot.
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Lasso is Facebook's latest bid to win over teens, which the large social media platform has lost its hold over.
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TechCrunch first broke the news last month that Lasso was in development, citing Voss as one of the team's heads.
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So following in the footsteps of Lasso, Lifestage, and Slingshot comes LOL, which might be Facebook's most doomed app yet.
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"He jumped on his horse that was at the ready and pulled out his lasso," said Alyssa Borba, Robert's wife.
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Cortana also has a new lasso feature that lets stylus users circle content to create reminders for things like movies.
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Lasso, a former banker, had promised to denounce the embattled Maduro, who foes say has lurched his country toward dictatorship.
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Preliminary results from Sunday's first round show Moreno winning but having to face Lasso again in an April 2 runoff.
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I don't need Touch Bar in Photoshop because I've already memorized how to switch between the Heal and Lasso brushes.
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Impatient with truth/justice, Wonder Woman uses her golden lasso to "Abu-Gharib her quarry" (the show's phrase, not mine).
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"I was a lasso instructor and a lariat importer, and they were all weird, fleeting jobs," he told the site.
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His right-wing opponent, Guillermo Lasso, said that if he was elected, Assange would be kicked out within 30 days.
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"Say no the banker!" he also said of Lasso, whom foes accuse of using shady offshore holdings to dodge taxes.
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"You must choose between continuity or change to live better," said Lasso, who is running for president a second time.
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Actually helping Huawei become a major player here in the States, however, may take more than a Lasso of Truth.
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We got Wonder Woman -- sans costume, shield, sword and Lasso of Truth -- with her hubby out in Bev Hills Tuesday.
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But since Britain has rejected that option, Mr. Ayala-Lasso said, it is difficult to see how mediation would work.
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Both Moreno and Guillermo Lasso, a 61-year-old former banker, had called for a recount after the original results.
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Soon she is deflecting bullets and mortar shells, and tossing an armored truck as she wields her Lasso of Truth.
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Last year, Facebook released Lasso, an app that is nearly identical to TikTok, except when it comes to download stats.
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Facebook has attempted to similarly mimic TikTok, with the 2018 roll out of Lasso, a nearly identical app to TikTok.
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On April 12, Mr. Lasso gave the C.N.E. documents of the many violations that support his claims of electoral fraud.
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The noose, according to the filing, was actually a lasso indicating BamBrogan was "acting like a cowboy" and had been caught.
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On Lasso, users can record themselves dancing and lip-syncing to music, similar to what they can already do on TikTok.
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Facebook quietly launches a TikTok competitor app called Lasso Facebook's murder clone of TikTok is now live in the App Store.
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In Young's opinion, there was time to attempt to lasso and capture the animal instead of shooting it with a rifle.
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Another sign of TikTok's success: Earlier this month, Facebook launched an app called Lasso that's almost a direct clone of TiKTok.
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Here's everything you need to know about the 32-year-old actress playing the lasso-of-truth-wielding Amazon princess. 1.
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Guillermo Lasso, Ecuador's right-wing candidate for president, is campaigning on the promise of ridding the country of WikiLeaks' pale king.
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Assange struck back at Lasso's pledge to remove him with a tongue-in-cheek tweet, "cordially inviting" Lasso to leave Ecuador.
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According to the best available science, polygraph tests are no more reliable at extracting the truth than Wonder Woman's magic lasso.
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We suspect she'll have them all in her lasso eventually, and then maybe Gadot can get the paycheck she deserves too.
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Last November, Facebook released its own TikTok clone, called Lasso, in an effort to capitalize on the music video app's popularity.
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Done cloning Snapchat, Facebook is now chasing Chinese short-form video sensation TikTok with the launch of its knock-off Lasso.
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But Lasso, 61, was already celebrating in his humid hometown of Guayaquil by the Pacific Coast under a stream of confetti.
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Leading pollster Cedatos said this month that 32.3 percent of Ecuadoreans planned to vote for Moreno versus 21.5 percent for Lasso.
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Below are key facts about TikTok that competes with the likes of Snap Inc's Snapchat and Facebook Inc's Instagram and Lasso.
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Lasso has also vowed to remove Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from the Ecuadorean embassy in London and denounce Venezuela's Socialist government.
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"As president, Lasso would give this country a new face," said Maria Lourdes Rosales, a 54 year-old lawyer in Guayaquil.
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Thompson's shots landed an inch or two long or short, and he picks up too many fouls trying to lasso Harden.
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Facebook launched a TikTok competitor last year called Lasso which lets users create viral short videos that often feature lip-syncing.
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The app features a toolbar on the left, which houses tools like the brush, type, clone stamp, healing brush, and lasso.
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Those threats include: Facebook's clone, Lasso; a forthcoming Instagram feature called Clips; and an app called Firework that Google considered buying.
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The company also launched, and shuttered, a House Party clone called Bonfire, and currently runs a TikTok-like app called Lasso.
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The nearby OIL UP and REUP, and the further down LASSO and LEASH jumped out to me — you might have others.
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In 2018, Facebook launched an app called Lasso, which lets users create and share short videos with music and camera effects.
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Instead of trying to start from scratch like Facebook's Lasso, Instagram could cross-promote Reels heavily to its own billion users.
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The police raided Cedatos, Ecuador's most reliable polling firm, confiscating its computers, after it published an exit poll giving Mr Lasso victory.
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Meanwhile it's continuously struggled with scandals like hiring opposition research firm Definers, and it saw its new teen app Lasso largely flop.
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In "Blue Lasso" a the Pacific Man of War jellyfish shows off its infamously toxic, electric blue tendril used to paralyze prey.
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In the photos, Gosling sported dark brown slacks and a short-sleeved plaid shirt while practicing his lasso skills on a lawn.
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As a campaign promise, Lasso had vowed to have Assange removed from his quarters in London within 30 days of taking office.
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After Facebook Watch, Lasso and IGTV failed to become hits with teens, the company has been quietly developing another youthful video product.
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But a separate exit poll by Perfiles de Opinion showed Moreno garnering 52.2 percent of the vote versus 47.8 percent for Lasso.
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And Lasso accused government-paid thugs of trying to attack him with rocks, sticks, and knives after a soccer game on Tuesday.
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Lasso has also admitted to owning a bank in Panama whose main line of business is to facilitate capital flight from Ecuador.
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While there, Mehta was involved in Facebook's launch of the short-form video app Lasso, which aims to be Facebook's TikTok rival.
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And then came Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot, with her shield, tiara, and lasso of truth in hand to prove them wrong.
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Foster and his demolition crew spent the next few hours trying to lasso the gator and drag it out of the house.
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And Facebook took it seriously enough that they cloned it, and they made an app called Lasso and they put it out.
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"[Lasso] has not been downloaded much at all, but the behemoth hasn't put any marketing power behind the launch either," he said.
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At the end of 2018, it launched Lasso, a video app very similar to red-hot app TikTok, which is still running.
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Dunham, 32, revealed her new ink on Instagram: the word "sick" written in a lasso typeface across the back of her neck.
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And another opposition candidate, lawyer and lawmaker Cynthia Viteri, is diverting votes away from Lasso, meaning Moreno might just win on Sunday.
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If you're partner is on board, tie up his or her hands with some nylon bondage rope in lieu of a lasso.
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"It will be another opportunity," he said, to "try to lasso lightning and pull it down and put it in a bottle."
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Lasso didn't take off; Sensor Tower estimates it's been downloaded 420,000 times outside China, while TikTok has more than 500 million users.
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The FBI can lasso thousands of people's records with a single NSL — regardless of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable warrantless searches.
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Takiyah Thompson, the 22-year-old who took credit for putting the lasso around the statue's bronze neck, was arrested Tuesday afternoon.
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He learns the ropes—or, rather, the lasso—alongside the kind of strongly independent female character that remains uncommon in video games.
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Dr. Lasso said there is no long-term water flow data for Caño Cristales, but agreed that things appear to be changing.
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The opposition is likely to coalesce behind Lasso and end a decade-long period of leftist rule in the small OPEC nation.
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This leaves Facebook hoping to grow its standalone TikTok clone Lasso, which TechCrunch scooped a year ago before it launched last November.
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Police officers tried to subdue the animal with tranquilizer darts, but they really could have used an experienced cowboy with a lasso.
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What it does show, however, is a metric fuck-ton of shopping centre lasso action that I can't begin to stop watching.
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Ahead of Sunday's presidential elections, right-wing challenger Guillermo Lasso has warned that the leftist candidate wants to turn Ecuador into Venezuela.
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So far, you're able to share Lasso videos as Facebook stories, with the feature to share them as Instagram stories to come later.
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And one final concern regarding Lasso is that Facebook isn't doing much to prevent underage kids below 13 from getting on the app.
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Why it matters: Lasso has promised to evict WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange from Ecuador's embassy in London, while Moreno says he can stay.
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Little Vale dressed up in a mini version of Gal Gadot's superhero costume even accessorizing with a headband, golden lasso and bracelet cuffs.
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Eat the right bad guy and Kirby will turn into a knight with a flaming sword or a cowboy with a twirling lasso.
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Some concerns over the proposal might be overstated, says Matthew Bickham, maker of an ad blocker called Magic Lasso for Apple's Safari browser.
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Facebook in early November released Lasso, a social app that lets users watch and create short videos that are usually set to songs.
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Hundreds of suspicious Lasso supporters massed in front of the electoral council after results were slow to trickle out in February's first round.
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It also comes only a little over a year after the tech giant dropped Lasso, Facebook's first attempt at creating a TikTok clone.
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"Professor Marston," of course, is only peripherally connected to its lasso-wielding heroine, but the underlying story possesses a power all its own.
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He said that Facebook's plan of attack was to launch its TikTok competitor, Lasso, in markets where TikTok didn't yet have a foothold.
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"Opacity has characterized this relationship with China," said Lasso, saying he would make public the fine print of deals with the Asian giant.
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There's a lasso tool, but no magic wand; paint bucket, but no gradients; layer masks, but no clipping masks, to name a few.
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As well as launching Lasso, Mark Zuckerberg revealed the company's ambitions regarding the Chinese app in audio leaked to The Verge in October.
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Consistency is important, but trying to lasso and ride the zeitgeist over multiple months even with perfectly consistent releases is all but impossible.
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Facebook released a short video app called Lasso last year to fend off competition from TikTok, an app owned by Chinese firm Bytedance.
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Sid Schroepfer, who will be a high school senior in the fall, demonstrated his lasso-twirling skills in the park one recent Sunday.
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Wonder Woman shows off some of her signature moves in the trailer, batting away bullets with her bracelets and throwing her golden lasso.
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Wonder Woman's golden Lasso of Truth comes in handy as a means to get some sweet air before landing perfectly on those... wedges?!
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Lasso is now being built by members of Facebook's video and Watch team, and its success will be up to the teens to decide.
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People reported in 2015 that Swift and her then-boyfriend Calvin Harris had a glass of wine each during a date at NYC's Lasso.
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She can deflect bullets with her bracelets and her shield, she has a lasso to capture enemies and force people to tell the truth.
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Snap recently added TikTok to its list of competitors, alongside Twitter and YouTube, and in November, Facebook released a TikTok copycat app called Lasso.
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That would trigger an April 2 runoff, probably against opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso, a 61-year-old former executive president of Banco de Guayaquil.
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Bull-riding, lasso competitions, and country music were all on the menu — Brazil now has some of the best rodeo performers in the world.
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"We will defend the democracy that the Venezuelan people have a right to," said Lasso, who is running for president for a second time.
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Before NASA said it wanted to lasso an asteroid, Robinson depicted a whole solar system of hollowed-out asteroid spaceships in his opus 2312.
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Still, Mr. Moreno's vision differed sharply from that of his opponent, Mr. Lasso, who lost to Mr. Correa by a larger margin in 2013.
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Francois, 13, says he suffered neurological problems, including memory loss, fainting and headaches, after accidentally inhaling Lasso in 2004 while working on his farm.
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Facebook needs to lean harder into Lasso: Zuckerberg may need to find a coherent place for TikTok-style features inside Instagram and potentially Facebook.
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The students are taught to whirl a lasso, and whoever is able to keep the loop spinning the longest gets to keep the rope.
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He prefers to lasso a taxi (a plush version, that is), a feat he performs onstage while playing the "William Tell" Overture on harmonica.
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There's also plenty of bullet-deflecting, lasso-ing, and prime Amazonian butt-kicking, but the true highlight is Wonder Woman swinging from lightning bolts.
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Facebook Lasso has a steep uphill climb ahead as it hopes to chase the musical video app it cloned, China's TikTok (which merged with Musically).
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Voss' departure post includes a "Made With Lasso" video featuring an augmented reality effect with him conjuring Facebook Like thumbs-ups out of his hand.
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Inconsistencies in test design were troubling — in my first year, the listening passage titled "Lydia's Lasso" left many urban teachers hopelessly gesturing the rodeo motion.
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With seemingly little fanfare, Facebook has launched its new app Lasso, a standalone short-form video platform that's been billed as a competitor to TikTok.
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You can also use your pen to "Lasso" information in images by circling the text, which Cortana will recognize and, again, add to your calendar.
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Farmer Paul Francois, who says he suffered neurological problems after accidentally inhaling the Lasso weedkiller in 2004, accused Monsanto of not providing adequate safety warnings.
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In addition to vowing a tough line against Maduro, Lasso has also promised to remove Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
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From Pete Sampras's running flat hit to Rafa Nadal's lasso-swung shot, the big forehand has been central to success for the sport's greatest names.
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The release confirms TechCrunch's scoop from last month that the company was building an app called Lasso to let people share short videos with soundtracks.
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So on this anniversary, if you haven't already, grab your lasso and your shield - we're going to need all the Wonder Women we can get.
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From 1975 to 1979, Carter played the Amazon princess in the landmark TV series, instantly becoming the quintessential embodiment of the golden-lasso-flinging heroine.
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Think of it as a virtual lasso that will look at where individuals wander, and how long they stay there, within a realm of space.
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He had 38.86 percent of valid votes versus 28.50 percent for Lasso, with 80.5 percent of votes counted, according to the official preliminary election count.
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This is despite the fact that President Rafael Correa has publicly denounced Lasso for his dealings and called on him to resign from his campaign.
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Moreno pocketed 51.16 percent of valid votes versus 48.84 percent for conservative challenger Guillermo Lasso, with 99.65 percent of votes counted, according to the council.
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She may not be using her sexuality as a weapon (she has bracelets and a gold lasso for that), but it's nonetheless making a statement.
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Even in the gloom of this staging, her exuberance is infectious — enough, it appears, to lasso a nod for best featured actress in a musical.
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The astronauts lasso corn puffs with dental floss and record their cholesterol readings on graphs shaped like penises in the color of their country's flags.
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Facebook has previously tried to clone the app's success with a standalone product called Lasso but it's difficult to build a user base from scratch.
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It's already made some smart additions to Lasso, like tutorials for how to remix and the option to add GIFs as sections of your video.
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They paid off that balance in 2500½ years using an approach they call the "Debt Lasso" method, and then wrote a book about the experience.
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The hashtag still has pull at the end of the decade, but there are new ways to lasso together our fast-paced online conversations, too.
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Lasso is another app that's still live today and appears similar to TikTok, the viral Chinese video app that has become the latest adolescent obsession.
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Lasso lets you overlay popular songs on 15-second clips of you lip syncing, dancing or just being silly — kind of like Vine with a soundtrack.
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A spokesperson told me that you need a Facebook or Instagram account to sign up for Lasso, and those services require people to be 13 older.
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The more conservative candidate, Guillermo Lasso, had publicly opposed Assange's Ecuadorian asylum claim, which currently protects him from a Swedish court's arrest warrant on rape charges.
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Enrique (Carlo Lasso), the Cali man assigned to follow the DEA, reassures Jorge that they're at a nice house in Palmira, but it's not Gilberto's house.
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Facebook has quietly launched an app, Lasso, that allows users to create short music videos, similar to the highly popular Chinese app TikTok, The Verge reports.
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I'm a longtime Wonder Woman fan, and seeing her signature golden lasso spring and snap to joyous life even made me tear up a tiny bit.
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The Philadelphia 76ers continue to make stunning strides and look to lasso their 10th victory in 13 contests when they visit the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday.
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There are moments that certainly played (the Godot Bat-punch, the slow-mo Flash sequences, Aquaman's truth-lasso confession), and I enjoyed some individual performance beats.
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But the main opposition candidate, conservative banker Guillermo Lasso, warns Moreno's promises are untenable in the midst of a recession, low oil prices and high debt.
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"Disabled people have rights, but they're not the only ones," said physiotherapist Christopher Aulestia, 25, who attended a rally to support Lasso in Guayaquil on Thursday.
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Surprisingly, Facebook is releasing Lasso under its own name rather than trying to obscure the connection to its social network that younger users have largely abandoned.
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There were pictures of Yarny using its thread to go fishing in a lake, and ones where it's used like a lasso to grab onto branches.
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Sporting a design that makes you feel like you need some tokens to play it, Lasso is a transparent rip-off of the popular TikTok app.
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Uber would then obfuscate its code from people within that geofenced area, essentially drawing a digital lasso around those it wanted to keep in the dark.
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Action is front-and-center as the Amazonian princess — and her at-last-confirmed Lasso of Truth — fights her way through World War I-era Europe.
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"Wonder Woman" actress Lynda Carter says — Lasso of Truth and all — that Americans should pay more respect to the presidency, regardless of which party holds it.
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But Mr. Ehrenreich in particular, who took lessons in rope tricks (with both lasso and spaghetti), horseback riding, guitar and gun slinging to prepare, earned raves.
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"CORREA-ERA WASTE" Lasso would also examine contracts and loans with China, Ecuador's top creditor since the country defaulted on $3.2 billion in bonds in 2008.
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Foregoing anything grim or spooky for their zombie game, Sega's House of the Dead team opened MS Paint and scrawled an abstract lasso around the point.
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But for many, Mr. Lasso was never able to overcome his history as banker in a country that has been rocked by financial crises and inflation.
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Uber would then obfuscate its code for people within that geofenced area, essentially drawing a digital lasso around those it wanted to keep in the dark.
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If Guillermo Lasso of Creating Opportunities or Cynthia Viteri of the Social Christian Party pull off an upset, however, it could be a different fate altogether.
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In the past, Mr. Lasso has supported Mr. Assange's stay at the embassy, but he expressed a different view in comments to The Guardian last week.
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In addition to her bracelets and golden lasso, Wonder Woman wears a tiara – which she occasionally hurls at bad guys as a sort of weaponized royal accessory.
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According to a TechCrunch report, Facebook is trying to win over teens with Lasso, an app where users can record themselves dancing and lip-syncing to music.
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Over the door is a lasso molded to spell out the words "Giddy Up." Stool near the door where a bouncer might sit, but it's always empty.
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Sources familiar with the company confirm that Afshin Pishevar placed the rope on the desk but they said that it was not a noose, but a lasso.
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Bottom line, how do we get him -- how do we lasso him in before we have to do something before where there will be serious collateral damage?
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Lasso will have to start from scratch as a standalone app, and Facebook's previous teen-focused standalones like Slingshot and Poke failed spectacularly with the same strategy.
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His obsession with ways to detect lies led him to invent an early simple lie detector, but it also gave Wonder Woman her magic truth-enforcing lasso.
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The cowboy was luckily armed with a lasso, and he roped the thief down in the Walmart parking lot like a rodeo competitor takes down a calf.
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Lasso expects the economy to remain mired in recession this year but grow 1.8 percent next year before reaching 5 percent in 2021 if he is elected.
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You can pull thread you lose back into your body, and also use it to lasso hooks that sparkle on the screen, indicating a point of attachment.
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Stopping for lunch at Hato Agua Verde, one of several haciendas on the ranch, we saw a lasso stretched along a fence, freshly made from pure leather.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The intense deal making in Silicon Valley in recent years has attracted hordes of investment banks eager to lasso the next billion-dollar start-up.
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Facebook's copycat Lasso has been installed just 425,000 times since it launched in November, while TikTok has 640 million installs in the same period outside of China.
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This Nendoroid is available for pre-order and comes out in May 2018, but we don't need a lasso to figure out how much you'd like this.
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One dispute surrounds a long, looped rope BamBrogan discovered on his office chair one morning, in the shape of a noose or a lasso, depending on your perspective.
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It was only on Twitter that Facebook product manager Andy Huang announced the app's release, and later Bowen Pan, the product manager for Lasso specifically, tweeted about it.
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Instead of kicking ass with a sword and lasso in Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot could've kicked ass behind the wheel of a car in Mad Max: Fury Road.
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Adults want a tormented Wonder Woman grieving for fallen comrades, not a cheerful Wonder Woman using her magic lasso to make dignified Amazon doctors stand on their heads.
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Preliminary figures released by the country's National Electoral Council (CNE) had Moreno with 51.1% for the votes cast, and Lasso at 48.9%, with 96.22% of the votes counted.
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She would be strong and smart, armed with bulletproof bracelets and an unbeatable lie detector—a Lasso of Truth that prevented anyone within its golden orbit from lying.
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Lasso voters are likely to dislike Maduro anyway while many leftists blame the Venezuela crisis on a power-hungry business elite seeking to sabotage socialism in Latin America.
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Such a fall is especially notable given that last year, secondary investors were willing to pay full freight — even a premium — for any Uber shares they could lasso.
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He and Master Rang wind up getting pretty into cowboy culture—learning how to use a lasso, hitting up a gun range, and donning some ridiculously large hats.
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They use a motorbike, and the one riding back holds the snare—a wooden pole with a lasso made of metal wire—and goes for the dog's neck.
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And Lasso accused government-paid "foreign mercenaries," whom he insinuated were Venezuelan, of trying to attack him with rocks, sticks, and knives after a soccer game on Tuesday.
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But Lasso persevered on Monday, holding a rally under the pouring rain in his coastal hometown of Guayaquil and vowing to keep battling what he said was fraud.
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Enough already Lynda Carter, TV's "Wonder Woman," wants director James Cameron to stop dissing the "Wonder Woman" movie, or else she'll tie him up with a golden lasso.
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Around 22.9 percent support Guillermo Lasso, a conservative banker and former economy minister, while 11.4 percent back Cynthia Viteri, a center-right lawyer and lawmaker, the poll showed.
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Zuckerberg then said that one of Facebook's plans of attack was to launch its TikTok competitor Lasso in markets where TikTok hadn't yet got a foothold, like Mexico.
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Last month, the company quietly released Lasso, a clunky clone that borrowed many of TikTok's core features and even tried to siphon off some of its power users.
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In the recount, Moreno, 64, obtained 51.16 percent of valid votes with Lasso at 48.84 percent - 1,594 votes more for Moreno than in the original April 2 count.
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Facebook has already released a TikTok clone, called Lasso, which flopped, and the app researcher Jane Manchun Wong recently discovered that Instagram has been testing TikTok-like features.
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He said that Facebook was focusing its new standalone video-sharing app Lasso, but would test it first in markets where TikTok is less prominent, such as Mexico.
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Mr. Lasso is promising to roll back public spending while eliminating more than a dozen taxes, which would mean the loss of billions of dollars from state coffers.
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In addition to several articles debunking Goop's claims on her blog, Wielding the Lasso of Truth, her criticism has appeared in the New York Times and Huffington Post.
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"Lasso is a new standalone app for short-form, entertaining videos — from comedy to beauty to fitness and more," a Facebook spokesperson told Gizmodo in a statement by email.
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As the film shows Olive holding the Lasso of Truth and donning a very Wonder Woman–esque corset, how Marston's sex life funneled into his work becomes glaringly clear.
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Marston drew on things such as his role in helping to create the modern polygraph and his interest in bondage for elements such as Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth.
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QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's presidential election will go to a second round pitting leftist government candidate Lenin Moreno against conservative former banker Guillermo Lasso, the electoral council said on Tuesday.
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Facebook Lasso app lead Brady Voss leaves for Netflix right after launch It's never a good sign when the head of your latest murder clone decamps for greener pastures.
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Available now for iOS and Android, Lasso is Facebook's answer to the zany mobile lipsyncing playground that's gained ground with young users, both in China and in the West.
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Facebook, seeing a steady decline in usage among teens, appears to have done just that with the release of a new "viral clips" app by the name of Lasso.
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Lasso, who had proclaimed himself victorious based on a top pollster's exit poll, disputed the close results that would extend a decade-long leftist rule in oil-rich Ecuador.
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Lasso also promised he would take a firm stance against the government of crisis-hit Venezuela, which is closely aligned with outgoing president Rafael Correa's leftist Country Alliance party.
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With that in mind, I decided to lasso her for this column, because what better way to get to know a person than through the unifying spirit of music?
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Lasso got off to a slow start, and is now the 687th most downloaded photo and video app in the United States, according to the mobile data company AppAnnie.
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For dessert, there might be sanzi, which calls to mind a reeled-in lasso, ossified: skinny plaits of dough two feet long, doubled back on themselves and fried hard.
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Piece by piece, the trailer rolls out the classic Wonder Woman symbols: First the indestructible bracelets, then the sword and the shield and, of course, the lasso of truth.
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Diana can be decked out with her trusty sword and shield, her lasso of truth, or burning armlets as if she had just blocked bullets shot by the patriarchy.
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That's especially true when you consider the real origin of Wonder Woman, the warrior with the indestructible bracelets and slightly kinky magic lasso who burst into comics in 1941.
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This is the single dude in his generation who has managed to finagle a fucking lasso around the neck of an entire sports league for more than a decade.
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From her exchanges with Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) to her golden lasso-work, it's shaping up to be a fine debut for one of the cornerstones of the Justice League.
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Right now, the trend seems to be to just lasso smoking and vaping together, but as more research and information about vaping is revealed, that could gradually begin to change.
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But should Moreno be forced into a second round, analysts expect Ecuador's fractured opposition to coalesce around Lasso amid an economic downturn and corruption scandals in OPEC's smallest member state.
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It's hard to imagine anyone other than Gal Gadot wielding the Lasso of Truth, but she was close to giving up on acting before landing the role of Wonder Woman.
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The company still deemed the prank a fireable offense because Afshin and BamBrogan were not on good terms and in that context the lasso could be interpreted as a noose.
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You might also remember when the company unsuccessfully tried to compete with Snapchat not once, but twice (Poke and Slingshot, both quietly shuttered) and its largely unused TikTok clone, Lasso.
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QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's conservative challenger Guillermo Lasso had 53.02 percent of votes versus 46.98 percent for leftist government-backed candidate Lenin Moreno, leading exit poll Cedatos showed on Sunday afternoon.
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Earlier, a jubilant Lasso claimed victory and told supporters in Guayaquil that he would free political prisoners and heal divisions created by 10 years of iron-fisted rule by Correa.
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Moreno's triumph was a relief for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after former banker Guillermo Lasso had vowed to remove him from Ecuador's embassy in London if he won the runoff.
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The leading opposition candidate, Guillermo Lasso, is a big Ecuadorian banker, who also has banking interests in Panama, one of the largest centers for illegal capital flows in the hemisphere.
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The term is from "boleadora," or LARIAT in Argentina, and refers to little stones or metal weights used almost like fishing sinkers to help a lasso settle around its target.
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In February, research firm Sensor Tower estimated Lasso had been downloaded 70,000 times since its launch, compared to nearly 40 million US downloads of TikTok in the same time period.
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Facebook has quietly released an app called Lasso that lets users create fun, short videos designed to compete with TikTok, the viral 15-second video app that recently merged with Musical.ly.
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The company introduced a clone named Lasso and released it in Mexico — where TikTok has yet to make inroads — in an attempt to perfect the product before rolling it out elsewhere.
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While she may have retired her lasso, her current role as the President of the United States on the CW's Supergirl shows that she has a handle on playing powerful women.
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A somber Lasso, who had earlier proclaimed himself victorious based on a top pollster's exit poll, disputed the results that would extend a decade-long leftist rule in oil-rich Ecuador.
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Lasso has criticized Moreno as economically ill-equipped and has warned his major social promises would hit already pressured coffers in a country dependent on exports of oil, bananas, and shrimp.
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In one (admittedly hilarious) scene, he gets roped up by Wonder Woman's lasso and tells the audience exactly who his character is, which would be amazing if it weren't so lazy.
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As counting neared completion in Quito and around the country, leftist candidate Lenin Moreno of the ruling Alianza PAIS (Country Alliance) party held a narrow lead over conservative opponent Guillermo Lasso.
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"Even when we go out to look for work, we can't find any," said construction worker Marco Manotoa, 23, who has been unemployed for three months and plans to vote Lasso.
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But knowing how Alias managed to lasso some A-list celebs — Quentin Tarantino, Angela Bassett, and Faye Dunaway — don't rule out the possibility of Garner getting back into that red wig.
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Lasso has promised to slash taxes, foster foreign investment and remove Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from the country's embassy in London, where he is avoiding extradition to Sweden over rape allegations.
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He reported that Facebook's clone, Lasso, has been downloaded fewer than 28,000 times; YouTube has been considering cribbing its features; and Google has held acquisition talks with Firework, a TikTok imitator.
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This is not a guy who is going to raise a stink about building a wall on the southern border — he's more likely to lasso illegal crossers with his own rope.
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Millions have taken part in the "Yee Haw Challenge," where they transform in a matter of seconds from everyday teens into a lasso-holding, plaid-wearing, Stetson-sporting cowboys and cowgirls.
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Polls suggest ruling party candidate, paraplegic former Vice President Lenin Moreno, 63, will win on Sunday but fall just short of enough votes to avoid an April runoff against Lasso, 61.
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Think of CPAC as a lasso of sorts, intended to keep the Republican Party in lockstep with conservative priorities, while GOP officials attempt to sound as "severely conservative" as humanly possible.
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Raised by a society of warrior women, she can create force fields, snare people in a lasso of truth, speak dozens of human languages and crush stone with her bare hands.
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Another thing that went unacknowledged, at least until the end of my time there: The rancher had only one thumb, the result of having swung a bad dale with a lasso.
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That is the stance championed by the conservative opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso, a wealthy banker from Mr. Correa's hometown, Guayaquil, who finished second in the last election against him in 2013.
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The announcement on Wednesday confirmed earlier indications that the governing party candidate, Lenín Moreno, and a conservative former banker, Guillermo Lasso, would face off in a second round on April 2.
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After the gator takes the bait, Stephens reels it in close to the surface, as Kroboth wrangles it with a lasso before wrapping its jaws shut with her signature pink tape.
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The likeliest candidate to join Mr Moreno in the second round is Guillermo Lasso, a conservative banker from the coastal city of Guayaquil who was runner-up in the 2013 presidential election.
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Forme Facebook Lead Product Designer Brady Voss Forme Facebook Lead Product Designer Brady Voss And now one of the Lasso team's bosses, Brady Voss, is leaving Facebook for a job at Netflix.
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The two compare notes on their similar-yet-different abilities — Gadot's superhero has the Lasso of Truth, whereas Jones's has... vodka — and pose for a quick selfie, for which Jones wants $5.
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He had 38.88 percent of valid votes versus 28.50 percent for Guillermo Lasso, with 80.9 percent of votes counted, the official preliminary election count shows, and appeared to slowly be inching up.
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"A Viteri or Lasso victory would be similarly market-friendly and would include both efforts to attract (Foreign Direct Investment) and an IMF program," consultancy Eurasia said in a note to clients.
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A nail-biter election left Lasso far behind Moreno last weekend, although Moreno fell just short of the required 40 percent of all votes and a 10-point difference to win outright.
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"What a government should do is facilitate entrepreneurship," Mr. Lasso said in a TV interview during the campaign, adding that he thought Mr. Correa generated too much employment through public-sector jobs.
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Facebook, of course, already tried to get a TikTok clone off the ground with Lasso, but the experiment didn't take off and the app lead, Brady Voss, left Facebook soon after its launch.
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The app currently allows users to cross-post their videos to Stories on Facebook, and the company said it would soon allow users to share their Lasso videos to Instagram Stories as well.
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And it's up to me—only me—to lasso one of those unruly mammal-birds and tame it, transmute it into something more approachable, a gentle, sweetly singing canary whose song is Truth.
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Yet the outcome was far from the rout achieved on the Russian steppes: rather, Mr Correa's candidate, Lenín Moreno, achieved a narrow victory, by 51% to 49% over Guillermo Lasso, a conservative banker.
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A Moreno win would come as a relief for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after conservative candidate Guillermo Lasso vowed to remove Assange from the Ecuadorean embassy in London if he won the runoff.
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Worried the bear would die if he stayed stuck in the cheese ball jail much longer, Hawkins decided to lasso the bear and tie it to a tree until wildlife officials could arrive.
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And Mike Campau brought Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Cathedral Towering over a Town, which was destroyed by fire in 1931, back to life using nothing but pixels, time, and Photoshop's handy magnetic lasso tool.
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Leftist and ruling party candidate Lenin Moreno says he won the national vote, but his opponent, conservative opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso, said things are too close to call, so he wants a recount.
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"I cordially invite Lasso to leave Ecuador within 30 days (with or without his tax haven millions)," the tweet read, echoing Lasso's language in his pledge to remove Assange from the London embassy.
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A Wonder Woman-themed product should abide by one simple guideline: Wearing it should make us feel as bold and badass as we would in thigh-high boots holding the Lasso of Truth.
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Analysts said that if the numbers held, they would create an opening for Mr. Lasso, who was in second place, to unite his and the remaining opposition votes and potentially capture the presidency.
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But despite Diana of Themyscira's legacy of empowerment and independence, it wasn't either of those things that gave us she of the golden lasso and the invisible jet—it was a crush gone wild.
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Lasso has campaigned on a platform to revive the economy, which is dependent on exports of oil, flowers, and shrimp, by slashing taxes, fostering foreign investment, and creating 1 million jobs in four years.
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They deserve more attention — especially the fact that her creators were staunch progressives whose colorful home life influenced everything in her story, including her bulletproof bracelets, Lasso of Truth, and even her invisible plane.
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Those were things like the lasso, when Hobie (Alden Ehrenreich) is waiting to meet Carlotta (Veronica Osorio) [and does some roping tricks], and some of the stuff like the arch on the Appian Way.
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It is worth noting that, according to a leaked document from the U.S. embassy in Ecuador, Lasso briefed U.S. embassy officials on his efforts to organize business opposition to the Correa government in 2007.
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Lasso has campaigned on a platform to revive the economy - which is dependent on exports of oil, flowers and shrimp - by slashing taxes, fostering foreign investment and creating a million jobs in four years.
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Still, if Lasso becomes president he has said that he would vote to suspend Venezuela from the Organization of American States, if a proposed vote goes ahead, unless Maduro agrees to move up elections.
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Still, Lasso has said he will challenge the results and some of his supporters were protesting by honking horns and waving yellow-blue-and red Ecuadorean flags in the Andean capital Quito on Tuesday.
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Mr. Lasso, from the port city of Guayaquil, had promised to cut back on what he called the excesses of the previous president, including by reducing the public-sector work force and government spending.
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Considering there's already a pile of TikTok competitors like Dubsmash, Triller, Firework and Facebook's Lasso available in the U.S., creators seeking stardom on a less competitive network already have plenty of apps to try.
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But some of them — the metahuman files, Wonder Woman's lasso — are bright spots in a movie that's generally pretty underwhelming, and others will no doubt be part of the bigger conversation regarding this movie.
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By the time we arrived at the outreach clinic, several dozen young girls were already waiting in line, fanning themselves and each other by spinning scarfs of multi-coloured fabric around like a lasso.
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A spokesperson told me that Facebook will be evolving Lasso and adding new features with time, and may test a feature for uploading videos instead of being restricted to shooting them in-app right now.
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Then in June 2017, Gadot, who is a mother of two girls, Alma, 6, and Maya, 1, wielded the Lasso of Truth on-screen in the Patty Jenkins-directed film, which catapulted her to superstardom.
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"We've lived 10 years of disgrace, 10 years of theft, corruption, false honesty, a country-wide regression where only a few have benefited," said Angel Mendoza, a 45-year-old architect who was supporting Lasso.
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Use the lasso tool to run a selection around your object and some of the immediate background, then choose Edit, Fill and pick Content-Aware from the drop-down (keep Color Adaptation ticked as well).
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Once bound in the golden Lasso of Truth, Captain Trevor is compelled to disclose his secret mission, with a face that suggests one of the Amazons is utilizing the power of an Invisible Prostate Exam.
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Disparate opposition factions in the oil-producing country of 17 million people, which stretches from the Andes to the Galapagos Islands, may then unite to support Lasso, giving him an edge over Moreno, analysts said.
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In its filing, Hyperloop One said the rope was actually given a "lasso knot, not a hangman's knot" and was a joking reference to a cowboy hat that Mr. BamBrogan regularly kept on his desk.
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In the event of a runoff, Ecuador's fragmented opposition is expected to coalesce around Lasso amid anger over an economic downturn and corruption scandals, although the ruling party has strong support among the country's poor.
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Insights into how popular with teens is Chinese video music app TikTok and meme sharing led Facebook to launch a clone called Lasso and begin developing a meme-browsing feature called LOL, TechCrunch first reported.
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Once users understood Lasso was a Facebook product, they associated it with that platform's older community and culture and rejected it, said Ryan Hoover, a venture capitalist and the founder of the site Product Hunt.
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In "Jumping Beans," 14 the clown makes a rubber stamp in his own likeness, cloning himself and overrunning the office 15 with an army of clowns, who lasso Max and wrestle him to the floor.
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As it happens, there was more kink to her story than suggested by that golden lasso, which she uses to force her captives to tell the truth and looks like something from a bondage emporium.
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They thought audiences might not believe the character's origin story (she's an Amazonian princess from a mystical island), or would write off her trademark weapons — a magical golden lasso and bulletproof gauntlets — as too silly.
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There's already a wealth of content on Lasso, similar to what was already on Facebook Watch during its initial launch, indicating that Facebook probably opened the app up to a community of beta users before today.
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Facebook cloned Houseparty into an app of its own called Bonfire, and it's since done the same to Chinese meme remixing and short-form video app TikTok with its own take on the format called Lasso.
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While Lasso has said he would evict Assange from the embassy where Ecuador granted him asylum in 2012 to prevent his extradition to Sweden, Moreno has said he could stay, increasing international interest in Sunday's vote.
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This would mean the end of Ecuador's hard-won sovereignty over economic policy, and a host of "structural reforms" made in the United States, which Lasso and his allies would be all too eager to implement.
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In an interview with Reuters in February, Lasso said Correa "wants to leave his own Maduro in Ecuador," alluding to late leader Hugo Chavez asking Venezuelans to support Maduro, a former bus driver and union leader.
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QUITO (Reuters) - An exit poll by Ecuador's Cedatos pollster estimated ruling party leftist Lenin Moreno received some 39.4 percent of valid votes versus around 30.5 percent for conservative ex-banker Guillermo Lasso in Sunday's presidential election.
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Just as well: She's the only person in possession of the Lasso of Truth, some bullet-rebounding bracelets, and a "God Killer" sword, to say nothing of her ability to punch through stone while rock-climbing.
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Lasso had criticized Moreno as being ill-equipped to deal with economic issues and warned that his major social promises would hit already pressured coffers in a country dependent on exports of oil, bananas and shrimp.
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A Lasso victory would intensify the return of the right in South America, where Argentina, Brazil and Peru have all shifted away from leftist rule in the past 18 months as a decadelong commodities boom ended.
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"Republicans in Washington learned where the energy was and learned how to lasso it and leverage it for victories up and down the map," said Jon Reinish, a Democratic strategist and veteran of New York politics.
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Consumers are now supposed to accept that a company who kept its pharmacy negotiations hidden from view as it padded its bottom line by billions is now going to lasso health care costs on their behalf?
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The vast majority of things the film depicts — from the types of movies these actors star in to the lasso tricks that young Western star Hobie (relative newcomer Alden Ehrenreich) performs — are now long since gone.
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Carlos Lasso, a senior investigator at the Humboldt Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to studying Colombia's biodiversity, has co-authored a 180-page guide to the fauna of Caño Cristales, part of a four-year regional study.
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Shown in a leak of its moderation guidelines from Netzpolitik, the company's policy is to downrank the visibility of any video referencing or including a watermark from direct competitors, including Dubsmash, Triller, Lasso, Snapchat and WhatsApp.
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Alternatively, use the Lasso tool instead of Brush to get a more accurate cut around your unwanted object (as you set the boundaries of the object with your finger, you'll see a zoomed-in preview on screen).
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Lenin Moreno, 16, a paraplegic former vice-president, just missed the minimum threshold to win the presidency in the first round in February, and latest polls show him narrowly beating conservative rival Guillermo Lasso this time around.
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Lenin Moreno, 64, a paraplegic former vice-president, just missed the minimum threshold to win the presidency in the first round in February, and latest polls show him narrowly beating conservative rival Guillermo Lasso this time around.
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A new trailer for that film, scheduled to arrive in theaters next summer, found Ms. Gadot charging into battle on horseback, using her shield to fend off military attacks and ensnaring bad guys with her magic lasso.
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QUITO (Reuters) - Former banker Guillermo Lasso is seen beating leftist government candidate Lenin Moreno for Ecuador's presidency in a runoff on April 2 with more than half of all valid votes, according to a poll by Cedatos.
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"When they see a bull going down the street, people are going to freak out," said Jay Lopez, 51, a professional roper who performs tricks with his lasso and who owns a motorcycle repair shop in Astoria.
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It might have been a sensible stopping point haven gotten the app out the door, but you'd also think that if Lasso had a real shot at popularity, he'd have wanted to stick around to oversee that growth.
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Watch: Margaret Atwood on Abortion, Twitter, and Predicting Everything We're Doing Wrong Marston's detectors formed the basis for Wonder Woman's golden lasso of truth, but it was his extracurricular activities that proved much more formative for the heroine.
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Facebook is building a video music app to steal TikTok's teens Josh Constine reports that Facebook is building a murder-clone of Bytedance's TikTok called Lasso, hoping to capitalize on teens' enthusiasm for recording short lip-synch videos.
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He draws in white wax crayon on paper covered with wet chalkboard gray paint — a favorite wet-dry technique — to creating wobbly spirals, tumbling figure eights and lasso-y loops that suggest an artist working on a tightrope.
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"Once we've recovered economic growth, we would emit long-term debt at lower interest rates so that with those resources we can, using market mechanisms, repurchase or pay off short-term debt with a high cost," said Lasso.
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Yet in the final weeks of the race, Moreno had inched ahead in polls amid an aggressive campaign led by Correa to cast Lasso as a wealthy, out-of-touch politician who profited from the country's 1999 banking crisis.
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Blockbuster status is attained globally, though, and Wonder Woman certainly got it, managing to lasso the elusive international market — the No Wo-Man's Land, if you will — that we've long been told won't buy tickets to movies like this.
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On Kimmel, Pine did confirm the movie's World War I setting and refused to answer a question about Wonder Woman's golden lasso — "I can't talk about specifics, man," he said — but was genuinely confused to hear about the plane.
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"Ecuador had no business spending a single cent protecting someone who definitely leaked confidential information," Lasso said from his 24th-floor office at the headquarter, overlooking the Banco de Guayaquil where he was executive president from 1994 to 2012.
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There are fistfights in alleys and more extensive episodes of combat, during which Diana makes use of her aunt's training, traditional Amazon weapons (notably a glowing piece of rope called the Lasso of Truth) and her own unique abilities.
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And it has fully articulated hand tracking that keeps tabs on the positions of all your fingers, as well as new gestures like a virtual lasso that can shoot out of your palm to let you grab virtual items.
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I love my mom dearly, she's my weak spot and I'd lasso the moon for her, but when she looked at me with sincere confusion, tears streaming down her face, pleading for an explanation, I knew I was in too deep.
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He looked close in an early February poll, with an estimated 53 percent of valid votes versus 25.7 percent for his nearest challenger Guillermo Lasso, a 61-year-old former president of Banco de Guayaquil, according to top pollster Cedatos.
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Lasso has put forward a pro-business agenda aimed at attracting foreign investment, reducing taxes and generating more jobs and in recent days drew comparisons between continuing a Correa-style government and going down the same path as socialist Venezuela.
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Lasso has benefited from ongoing corruption allegations related to bribes Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht paid to officials in Correa's government and a $12 million contracting scandal at state-run PetroEcuador, but analysts say he has not connected with lower-income voters.
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The other presidential candidate, former banker Guillermo Lasso, proposes a traditional right-wing program of tax cuts for the rich and spending cuts that will have to more than match these so as to bring down the national budget deficit.
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The original creator of Wonder Woman is a man named William Moulton Marston, who was, among other things, credited with inventing the lie-detector machine (which brings to light why Diana uses a lasso that compels people to tell the truth).
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Paul Francois, who says he fell ill after inhaling vapor from weedkiller Lasso in 2004, won rulings in 2012 and 2015 that found Monsanto liable for the intoxication, before France's top court overturned those decisions and ordered a new hearing.
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When approaching this roller coaster, it's hard not to be astonished by its look: With a wispy flat yellow track that twists and turns through the sky in all kinds of iterations, it really does evoke Wonder Woman's lasso of truth.
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In the latest stage of a decade-long legal tussle, the appeals court in Lyon on Thursday found in favor of farmer Paul Francois' claim that Monsanto's Lasso weedkiller had made him sick and that the product's labeling had been inadequate.
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From here, click on the middle icon on the right side of the top panel — the one that looks like mini tracks, followed by the loop icon (the one that looks like a little lasso) on the right hand side.
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This is one of the Photoshop tasks that people are used to doing manually using either pen input and freehand selection, or a combination of the Magic Wand, lasso and polygonal selection tools, all of which involve considerably more work.
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And now Wonder Woman continues that spirit, with its paradise island of Themyscira — a place that looks like a mashup of Mykonos and Hawaii — and its bright and hopeful heroine, who wields a glowing golden lasso and wears ruby body armor.
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Robinson's film, Professor Marston & The Wonder Women — starring Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcote as Marston, Holloway, and Byrne, respectively — shines a light on the man, and most strikingly, the women behind the red boots, invisible jet, and lasso of truth.
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As you know, typically, a few of us try cramming into the Equity podcast dungeon, including the nimble Alex Wilhelm, the scholarly Danny Crichton and, when we can lasso her, the razor-sharp Kate Clark, plus a guest from the investment world.
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Lasso contrasted Sunday's fast results with the first round of the election in February, when a final tally took days to come out and his supporters gathered in front of the electoral council to guard against what they said were fraud attempts.
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"What She Is" was our first long look at Themyscira, which also quietly gave us a much clearer idea of where this origin story was taking us, including peeks at Doctor Poison, some nifty lasso-work, and other action we'd not seen before.
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Facebook is building Lasso, a video music app to steal TikTok's teens Facebook is building a standalone product where users can record and share videos of themselves lip syncing or dancing to popular songs, according to information from current and former employees. 5.
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No release date is set yet, but with DC's Wonder Woman film set to open in June 2017, there's every reason to rush this feature to theaters to ride its publicity coattails — and to throw a little truth-lasso around the familiar legend.
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He can describe how his grandfather made a lasso out of long grass to catch a stunned goanna, a type of lizard, for dinner, and he says a rope laid around a bush house will stop snakes from passing over the threshold.
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This holding company is registered by alaw firm but belongs to Lasso, and he has admitted to this; but on paper there are a series of transactions of the kind often involved with offshore banking and tax avoidance that disguise this ownership.
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With analysts expecting the OPEC country's disparate opposition to unite behind Lasso in a potential second round, his victory would cement the return of the right in South America after a decade of a strong leftist bloc buoyed by a commodities boom.
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And along the way, Rang experiences America for the first time—riding on a horse, learning how to lasso, the rodeo, shooting guns… As much as Rang says he used to run around the jungle in Vietnam with a gun, I still don't believe that.
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Facebook adds music features to profiles and Stories, expands Lip Sync Live to Pages Ahead of the launch of Lasso, Facebook is adding a new 'music' section on profiles, bringing music stickers to Stories, and rolling out its Lip Sync Live game to pages.
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"When he's tagging up or when he's stealing a base on that rare occasion, you want to throw the lasso around him and hold him down, but he's not going to push things beyond where he doesn't feel comfortable," Farrell said of Ortiz, who hit .
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All this would bode ill under any circumstances, but the lack of respect for national sovereignty means that as the economy runs into trouble — which is likely, given the proposed budget cuts — Lasso would probably go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan.
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Being able to rendezvous with and capture a satellite is also just what you'd need to do if you wanted to lasso a small asteroid, clamp onto it, and start a space mining operation — extracting its water for fuel or its metals for construction materials.
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Ecuador pro-business candidate Guillermo Lasso has doubled down on accusations that government-backed candidate Lenin Moreno would turn the Andean country into Venezuela, alluding to a recent Supreme Court move there to neuter the National Assembly that foes denounced as a lurch into dictatorship.
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A few times, I wanted to swing my hands in the air and use an imaginary rope to lasso the cowboys or shoot them with a finger gun; one day we'll have Kinect-style hand and body tracking for VR and it'll be awesome.
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A superior warrior raised and trained on a utopian island of battle-ready women, Wonder Woman's guiding philosophy is inflected by traditionally feminine qualities, like justice, compassion, and love; her superpowers are buoyed by weapons which include bullet-deflecting bracelets and a Lasso of Truth.
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But it is above all the depiction of the sword-wielding, lasso-tossing character as an empowered woman that accounts for the film's triumph, said Melissa Silverstein, founder of the Women and Hollywood blog and co-founder of the women-focused Athena Film Festival.
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"While a Lasso second-round victory remains our base case, Viteri would also likely beat Moreno in a run-off, as the opposition will mostly rally around a single candidate and voter discontent will remain high," Eurasia consultancy said in a report last week.
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A few favorites for me were EAU CLAIRE (oak lair); RUBY ("buff" = RUB + "yellow" = Y, color for slippers); and LASSO ("Gal" = LASS + "Gadot's penultimate" = O), a cool party trick with a popular name, demonstrating the kind of mental agility that I can only dream of.
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They captured a 10-foot caiman (by luring him to stick his snout through a lasso), a manatee, a peccary named Houdini (because of its frequent escapes), a baby orangutan, a 12-foot python, a giant anteater, a bear cub and tons of other animals.
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Titled "Uncensored: A Word From Our Doctors," Goop's "we go high" post seemed to single out Dr. Gunter (without naming her but referring to her "wielding the lasso of truth" line) as looking to "critique Goop to leverage that interest and bring attention" to herself.
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Many Ecuadoreans simply did not believe the announcement of the results of the April 2 election, which gave the victory to the ruling party's candidate, Lenin Moreno, with 51.15 percent of the vote, and said Guillermo Lasso, the Creo-Suma party candidate, received 48.85 percent.
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On Friday, it raided the offices of Cedatos, one of Ecuador's most respected polling firms, alleging an "attack on the public faith" because it had reported an exit poll indicating that Guillermo Lasso and I had won the election with 53 percent of the vote.
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That maiden triumph was celebrated with her self-styled 'Samurai-lasso' dance and after inventing a new way to enjoy her victory on Sunday, the 23-year-old could soon be running out of ideas to mark each victory as her stock rises on the LPGA Tour.
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And he has pledged to restore the "independence" of the central bank, which would make it more an instrument of the big bankers, like it was when Lasso himself was in his prime in the late 28503s (when the economy was wrecked by a banking collapse).
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In Stampede, you're a cowboy riding through a Wild West town and you have to lasso other cowboys off their horses, and in Go Fast Car, you are a dog (yes, a dog, as ludicrous as that sounds) driving an F1 race car around a track.
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There's a fig tree, and a bush that attracts hummingbirds, and a variety of plants and handmade stools and low tables, and baskets with local fruit, and objects Vo has found on his Mexican travels—a braided leather lasso, Coca-Cola bottles with scorpions embalmed in mezcal.
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Because Molly's family is religious, the book also dwells on domestic Jewish rituals, lavishing special attention on the Sabbath, "the Queen of Days," that stretch of 24 hours ingeniously engineered by the ancient rabbis to honor God, and while doing so, lasso the family into relaxed togetherness.
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But it's still failing to gain serious traction in the U.S. While typical videos on the TikTok homepage where I'm spending a few hours a week have hundreds of thousands of Likes, the top ones I saw in my Lasso feed today received 70 or fewer.
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The election on Sunday was the first in a long time in which the Ecuadorean authorities did not declare a winner on the night of the balloting, leading Mr. Lasso and many of his supporters to level accusations of fraud, but no evidence of irregularities was reported.
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While people on land were told to stay inside, the Coast Guard on Tuesday set up a safety zone and Navy divers went into Port Orchard Bay in Puget Sound in Washington to lasso the big, round, rusted object with metal prongs bobbing in the water.
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So we have a number of approaches that we're going to take towards this, and we have a product called Lasso that's a standalone app that we're working on, trying to get product-market fit in countries like Mexico, is I think one of the first initial ones.
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"[T]he Sham Complaint attempts to dramatize a workplace incident—a rope tied with a lasso knot, not a hangman's knot, left on the desk where BamBrogan's keeps his trademark cowboy hat—into a story about a threatening 'hangman's noose' that is tabloid fodder and fiction," the lawsuit says.
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Given the awkward aspects of the venerable character's backstory (Trevor calls her lineage "neat"); her goofy accessories, including a magic lasso (featured) and invisible airplane (wisely omitted); and the limits of the '70s TV show, transforming "Wonder Woman" into that sort of big-screen attraction is no small accomplishment.
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Another former foreign minister, José Ayala-Lasso, who also has served as the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, said that diplomatic immunity would have been an elegant solution to the problem because it would have exempted Mr. Assange from facing punishment in Britain for bail jumping.
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The UI is pretty similar to the upcoming Photoshop for iPad beta we looked at earlier this year — there are tools like brushes, paint bucket, move / transform, and lasso on the left, and the layers panels with blend modes like multiply, color burn, and screen on the right.
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With more than 90 percent of the votes counted, Mr. Moreno, a close ally of departing President Rafael Correa, had won 51 percent of the vote, while his opponent, Guillermo Lasso, a 61-year-old banker, had won 49 percent, according to early figures published by Ecuador's electoral commission.
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So we have a number of approaches that we're going to take towards this, and we have a product called Lasso that's a standalone app that we're working on, trying to get product-market fit in countries like Mexico, is I think one of the first initial ones.
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Earlier in the day, the actress — who also shares sons Beau Dean, 19 months, Finn Davey, 6, and Liam Aaron, 11, plus daughter Stella Doreen, 10, with husband Dean McDermott — posted a "mom plea" to her Instagram Story in an attempt to lasso a last-minute birthday treat for Hattie.
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With Ecuador's economy slated to shrink by 2.7 percent this year as oil prices remain low and with a majority of citizens stating in surveys that they are eager for change, analysts had been anticipating that Ecuadoreans would back Lasso and join the growing list of Latin American nations shifting to the right.
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Ms. Gomez had come to this land of ports, tea estates and spice gardens not only to reconnect with a part of herself, but also to find new ways to use her camera-ready personality and kitchen chops to lasso Kerala's beautiful food culture and drag it back to the United States.
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" They offer a point-by-point refutation of the claims made in Pishevar, Lloyd, and Lonsdale's suit, including the assertion that the noose/lasso "was a threat of violence, and even [the] company recognized it as such -- firing Afshin immediately and hiring armed security guards to patrol the campus after the noose was left.
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If Nas was the aloof observational poet sketching devils lasso metaphors of Queensbridge, Mobb Deep brought the energy of Timbalands stomping down pissy stairwells; they were the sweat on your spine, the grim color of the chalk outline, the heart racing like a cardiac patient, shattered glass echoing, the mutant fragrance of marijuana and bullet smoke.
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It's a comic book/superhero movie, but it also happens to be a historical movie taking place in Europe during World War I. So while this movie's main character is a badass woman made of clay (she can also fly) who fights bad guys with a magical lasso, there are some things that are actually very real about who she's fighting.
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So far the only evidence of possible fraud presented by Lasso's campaign are the results in one tiny provincial voting center that it said were reversed when they were reported to electoral authorities in Quito Thousands of outraged Lasso supporters shouting "fraud" broke through metal barricades and almost reached the entrance of the electoral council's headquarters in Quito before being pushed back by police.
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To accomplish that tall order of a mission, Wonder Woman was endowed with tools of the trade: the Lasso of Truth, which compels whomever it is wrapped around to spill their secrets; the Bracelets of Submission, which allow the wearer to deflect bullets and sonic blasts; and a tiara that functions as both a boomerang and a way to keep hair out of her face.
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Letter of Recommendation If you are an American over the age of 6, chances are you have a mental image of that moment, in December of 1620, when the Pilgrims stepped ashore in Plymouth: a gray sky, a craggy coast and bone-chilling waters holding the Mayflower in the distance as a huddle of God-fearing voyagers, all with solemn expressions and oversize cockel hats, lasso their sloop to a rock.
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